[Temptis] Bikini story / / Patrik Alac

• Autore: Alac Patrik
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Parkstone Press, [2012]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 391.4/8
• Soggetto topico: Bikinis - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: The birth of the bikini -- From scandal to scandal -- The frontiers of imagination -- The bikini and the cinema -- The conditioning of the body -- The new freedom -- Epilogue: the beach as an arena for -- Social liberty.
• Sommario/riassunto: It was in 1946 that the world fi rst came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. The following year, French couturier Louis Réard borrowed the name and applied it to a bathing costume for women. Breaking from decades of conformity, Réard dared to 'undress' women's bodies in order to better emphasize what remained clothed - albeit in tiny wisps of material. By taking up the bikini as popular beachwear, women also found themselves thinking differently about their bodies. An ideal of perfection was reinforced by the appearance on the cinema screen of stars such as Marilyn
• Titolo autorizzato: Temptis
• ISBN: 9781283953986; 1283953986; 9781780429519; 1780429517
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150208503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Temporis